IUCr forums

Biological Macromolecules
The Commission on Biological Macromolecules exists to advise the IUCr in organizing or sponsoring sessions on macromolecular crystallography at Congresses and conferences; to promote and coordinate scientific exchange between countries in the field of macromolecular crystallography; to cooperate with other Commissions of the Union on matters dealing with macromolecular crystallography; and to cooperate with other international bodies interested in macromolecular crystallography and allied subjects.

Volume H: Powder Diffraction
This forum has been set up to allow discussions of the new volume of International Tables on Powder Diffraction. It is intended to allow discussion of all aspects of the volume.

Volume B: Reciprocal Space

Public input on diffraction data deposition
This is a public forum that invites community input on strategies and desirable practices in providing open and long-term access to diffraction data sets.
Moderator: Brian McMahon

Public input to CommDat
This is a public forum that invites community input on data strategies and desirable practices. It is maintained by the IUCr Committee on Data, https://www.iucr.org/iucr/governance/ad ... ee-on-data

CIF Application Programming Interface
Forum for CIF developers to define an application programming interface for CIF software.
Moderators: Brian McMahon, jcbollinger

CIF dictionary namespace conventions
Discussion of namespace conventions for community-developed CIF dictionaries.
Moderators: Brian McMahon, jcbollinger

NeXus HDF5 CIF convergence
The NeXus, HDF5 and CIF scientific data formats overlap in some areas (e.g. in the capture and management of X-ray diffraction images), and there is considerable benefit to be gained by harmonising their content and working towards maximum interoperability. This forum invites discussion on this topic.
Moderators: Brian McMahon, jcbollinger

Core CIF review and update
Discussion of core CIF dictionary definitions. Please choose topic headings so that the first words refer to a particular dataname or category, whether existing or proposed.
Moderators: Brian McMahon, jcbollinger

CIF2.0
Public discussion forum for the CIF2.0 standard.
Moderator: Brian McMahon